Concepts of mental life across cultures: Secondary analysis

Exploratory factor analysis using full datasets, tetrachoric correlations, and oblique transformations

In this notebook we conduct exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) on the datasets for our studies of concepts of mental life, in which each participants judged the various mental capacities of a particular target entity. We analyze datasets for adults and children from each of our five field sites: the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.

This notebook contains secondary analyses, parallel to the results presented in the main text, in which we recoded responses of “kinda” to be equivalent to “yes” (i.e., coded as 1) and use tetrachoric rather than Pearson correlations.

Adults

Samples

  country   n
       US 127
    Ghana 150
 Thailand 150
    China 136
  Vanuatu 148
    Total 711

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Exploratory factor analysis

Factor loadings

Congruence

Bootstrapped congruence

Children

Samples

  country   n
       US 117
    Ghana 150
 Thailand 152
    China 131
  Vanuatu 143
    Total 693

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Exploratory factor analysis

Factor loadings

Congruence

See All samples, below.

Bootstrapped congruence

All samples

Congruence

Jaccard Similarity

Developmental comparisons

Variance accounted for

Interfactor correlations

US ADULTS
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4947534 0.4804340
F2 0.4947534 1.0000000 0.5291443
F3 0.4804340 0.5291443 1.0000000

US CHILDREN
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.5415083 0.3161305
F2 0.5415083 1.0000000 0.4435483
F3 0.3161305 0.4435483 1.0000000

GHANA ADULTS
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.2798815 0.3582925
F2 0.2798815 1.0000000 0.2425925
F3 0.3582925 0.2425925 1.0000000

GHANA CHILDREN
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.5710736 0.1796716
F2 0.5710736 1.0000000 0.3896234
F3 0.1796716 0.3896234 1.0000000

THAILAND ADULTS
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4506808 0.3488039
F2 0.4506808 1.0000000 0.4871667
F3 0.3488039 0.4871667 1.0000000

THAILAND CHILDREN
            F1        F2        F3          F4
F1  1.00000000 0.5216686 0.3079502 -0.01011904
F2  0.52166859 1.0000000 0.4330757  0.10812086
F3  0.30795020 0.4330757 1.0000000  0.26630370
F4 -0.01011904 0.1081209 0.2663037  1.00000000

CHINA ADULTS
          F1        F2
F1 1.0000000 0.5539927
F2 0.5539927 1.0000000

CHINA CHILDREN
          F1        F2        F3        F4
F1 1.0000000 0.3387503 0.4822502 0.3791206
F2 0.3387503 1.0000000 0.1854269 0.2362745
F3 0.4822502 0.1854269 1.0000000 0.1783880
F4 0.3791206 0.2362745 0.1783880 1.0000000

VANUATU ADULTS
          F1        F2
F1 1.0000000 0.6904623
F2 0.6904623 1.0000000

VANUATU CHILDREN
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.3665866 0.5096434
F2 0.3665866 1.0000000 0.3013293
F3 0.5096434 0.3013293 1.0000000